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title: This is really too good a chance to be lost; I must certainly go bac… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: This is really too good a chance to be lost; I must certainly go back at once and pick up the first boot, and then I shall have a pair of new boots for nothing. Who acts: This, I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., with
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 78

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This is really too good a chance to be lost; I must certainly go back at once and pick up the first boot, and then I shall have a pair of new boots for nothing.

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**Who acts:** This, I · **What happens:** be, lose, go back, pick up, have · **To what, where:** first boot, pair

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:19:78
# text = This is really too good a chance to be lost; I must certainly go back at once and pick up the first boot, and then I shall have a pair of new boots for nothing.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	boot	boot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | This |  |  |  |  | a chance *nsubj*; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | to-infinitive · passive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **go back** | must | I |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **pick up** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the first boot |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Topic |
| 5 | **have** | shall | I | a pair of new boots for nothing |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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